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Comment Re:Nothing new (Score 1) 178

Thank you. And you notice how many just gloss over the fact that despite all their "GNU" talk when push comes to shove they throw their convictions right out the windows for better performance?

This is why I think Linux is gonna bleed users after the Win 10 release, I have a feeling most aren't giving as shit about free as in freedom, just free as in beer and with Win 10 being the latter all those bullshitters talking FOSS and GNU are gonna quietly slink away and get their free Win 10 and see the proprietary is faster without all the BS and just not come back.

Why would I ever do tha?t As it stands now I have several legitament free windows keys for the last 5 of so windows desktop OS's and keys for several of the server releases none are used exsept for one WinXP key for VMs and and my duel boot Linux WinXP destop for visual studio. My servers my laptop my other destops run Linux exlusivly. I am likely to never going back to windows without a major reason.

Comment Re:How About (Score 2) 224

If it's like the Ford model that had a similar feature a few years ago, it's controlled by which key you use - regular key, valet key, teenager key. Yeah, most teens could easily swap keys with Mummy or Daddy, but then Mummy and Daddy will start getting warnings when they speed or play the radio too loud.

only if the teen isn't smart enough to only use the parent key to deactivate the limits on the teen key then return the parent key.

Comment Re:Should A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer.... (Score 1) 163

The potential of the cloud though is that when a Furbie figures out which jokes make his owner-child laugh, other furbies can reorder their lists.

If we can do it safely it seems kinda cool.

Yes but how long until /b/ figures out how to spoof this out and spams their servers sexual and racial epitaphs, thus leading to a furbies becoming the toy equivalent of bucket the chatterbot

Comment Re:Sorry, it's a drug precursor. Not yours. (Score 1) 132

We can no longer buy iodine, or red phosphorus, or acetyl chloride, because they can be used to make meth. If someone makes a machine that can "print" arbitrary small molecules, what makes you think that The Authorities will view these machines any more tolerantly?

you can also processe those out of other things phospher for example can be processed out of urine (that was how it was discovered in the first place) iodine can be bought at in water purification kits for backpacking. where theres a will theres a way.

Comment Re:Suggestion for filtering front page stories??? (Score 1) 132

I would like to filter the following ever-expanding list of terms:
3d print, make community, maker, hackerspace, ruby, ruby on rails, disrupt, women in tech, code.org, zuckerberg

I need push updates on:
Bennett Haselton, hugh pickens, and /. beta news.

Thanks a million.

What you really need a greasemonkey userscript to change all Zuckerburg to Zoidberg.

Comment Re:Becasue... the children! (Score 2) 190

That's not the real reason, they don't want anyone sneaking booze into place where they'd otherwise spend money on beer and drinks. Like stadiums, concerts, etc.

Don't believe everything a politician tells you, they get money from Bud, Coors, and Jack Daniels.

then why don't Bud Coors and Jack Daniels just make their own branded powdered alcohol.

Comment Re:Per file AES (Score 1) 73

So how does the whole per-file random AES key work? Since they're only shipping over the one 'key' parameter, the individual file keys have to be somehow deterministic right?

or are all of the keys are stored in a encrypted keyring where the key they give you unlocks all of the keys in the keyring which then unlocks all of your files.

Comment Re:VM (Score 1) 73

It says this malware refuses to do anything if it detects VM. How to make my computer look like a VM?

My first guess is install vmware tools so it looks like a guest os?

I have actually wondered why they wouldn't check for things like that and use them as an attack vector for the host computer.

Comment Re:Well, they're wrong. Plain and simple. (Score 5, Insightful) 447

Just a few days ago I made the case why homeopathy or other "magical medicine" and the way it might be practiced today can offer at least one significant upside vis-a-vis regular medical treatment ... or should I say council?

That homeopathic substances probably offer no better remedy than placebos is not really news. However, they *do* offer cheap placebos, which also can be a good and useful thing. And placebos are effective, or at least have an effect, there are enough studies that prove that.

The problem is when the placebo effect is not powerfull enough to overcome a medical issue but real pharmaceuticals are and the people instead choose the placebo homeopathy because its natural and better when it really isn't. Or when the people selling the diluted sugar pills are charging equal or more that real effective pharmaceuticals.

Secondly the placebo effects also works when there are real medicines as well so you get two benefits (real and placebo). were homeopathy is just one(placebo).

Comment Re:Add a parameter? (Score 1) 129

The kernels default should be the revision the kernel implements. If the kernel implements five the value should be five. A report_acpi_ver= flag seems like a perfectly reasonable solution, but it should be up to the distros to override that with their boot loader configs; where someone might actually see it. If its really such a common problem that it makes sense to do that widely out of box in the first place.

Software should do the least astonishing thing, and I think having the kernel inaccurately report acpi support would qualify as astonishing.

Isn't working properly the least astonishing thing?

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